Change to Strange: Create a Great Organization by Building a Strange Workforce

About this book

To achieve sustained competitive advantage you must create and deliver something thats valuable rare and hard to imitateand you cant do that with a run-of-the-mill workforce. Your workforce needs to be strikingly different obsessively focused on delivering on your unique value proposition. Compared with everyone elses workforce your people need to be downrightstrange! This book is about everything it takes to build a workforce thats strange and extraordinary enough to execute your most powerful strategies and your unique value proposition. Its about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different...creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain...implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals...establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique...using those metrics to drive clarity throughout your entire organization and steer it toward success. If youre tasked with executing strategy through people and balanced scorecards and strategy maps just havent been enough take your next and greatest leap forward: make theChange to Strange. Why normal workforces just wont cut it anymore Everyone says their people make the difference. Most everyones wrong. Create your strange workforce in four steps Imagine pinpoint your gaps prioritize and act. What your customers must notice for you to win Link your real performance drivers to specific workforce deliverables. Rearchitect your workforce to break from the pack Organize to get strategic results from the right people. Leverage the magic of measurement Implement metrics that workand keep them working.